Friday, July 25: EPIC IV: VISIONS OF HELL & SIN - Dante and Milton

Required Readings: Dante Inferno, Cantos I – V.78, IX, XXVI, XXXI; XXXIV; (HO); Milton Paradise Lost “The Verse”, I.1-270, IX.655-792 (HO)

Optional Readings: Dante, Purgatorio, Cantos XXX; Paradiso XXXIII; Milton, Paradise Lost, VI.189 - 352

Presentation: 1) Aeschylus, Selection from Prometheus Bound (Knox pp. 302-305); 2) Hesiod, Works & Days, “Pandora” (Knox pp. 188-191)

Dante Resources:

• Digital Dante:Your first stop for all Dante Information
• A Chronology of Dante's Life
• A list of many maps and schematic descriptions of Dante's cosmos
• Dante's vivid description of the underworld have inspired many visual artists. Here's a nice collection of paintings, etchings, and drawings with the passages that inspired them.
• A collection of Dante texts in Latin and Italian
• A fan of the movie Hannibal? Here's an essay explaining its debt to Dante
• A list of Virgilian elements in the Inferno
• Been Bad? Take the Dante’s Infero Test to determine your place in Dante’s cosmos
• Many Dantesque touches can be seen in Rodin's "Gates of Hell"

Milton Resources:

• One of the most visual of poets, Milton has inspired many works of art
• A collection of the text, images, FAQs and more
• Several editions of Paradise Lost
• A Chronology of Milton's Life
• Outline of Milton’s Paradise Lost